Cites 'Flood of Emails'

NPR ombud Alicia Shepard responded to the over 1,500 activists who wrote to NPR regarding the Howard Zinn obituary that aired on “All Things Considered.” Her response is below. Thanks to all of those on the list who wrote to NPR. http://www.npr.org/ombudsman/2010/02/howard_zinns_obit.html Activist Historian Howard Zinn’s Obit Causes a Firestorm There’s a taboo not to speak ill of the dead. Or if you are going to, then at least be nuanced and even-handed about it. And that’s what hundreds said about a Jan. 28 remembrance of Howard Zinn, the activist historian who died Jan. 27. Zinn was decidedly left of […]

David Horowitz in ATC obituary with substance-free attack

When progressive historian Howard Zinn died on January 27, NPR‘s All Things Considered (1/28/10) marked his passing with something you don’t often see in an obituary: a rebuttal. After quoting Noam Chomsky and Julian Bond, NPR‘s Allison Keyes turned to far-right activist David Horowitz to symbolically spit on Zinn’s grave. “There is absolutely nothing in Howard Zinn’s intellectual output that is worthy of any kind of respect,” Horowitz declared. “Zinn represents a fringe mentality which has unfortunately seduced millions of people at this point in time. So he did certainly alter the consciousness of millions of younger people for the […]